The Best Books of 2022, According to Reddit

The books assemblage connected Reddit has released their database of the champion books of 2022. The books were chosen by idiosyncratic threads made for each category: Best Debut, Best Literary Fiction, Best Mystery oregon Thriller, Best Short Story Collection/Graphic Novel/Poetry, Best Science Fiction, Best Fantasy, Best LitRPG, Best YA, Best Romance, Best Horror, and Best Nonfiction.

For a publication to beryllium nominated, it had to person been published successful 2022 and posted arsenic a remark successful the thread that matched its category. Voting stayed unfastened until January 15, and the comments/books with the astir votes won.

The categories are a small antithetic from what we usually spot with publication lists — abbreviated stories, graphic novels, and poesy are grouped nether 1 umbrella, for instance, and determination is simply a LitRPG category, thing not seen often connected Best-Of books lists and a class that didn’t look to garner immoderate nominations oregon votes.

The radical of winners is led by women writers and has immoderate diversity. Jennette McCurdy’s debut memoir I’m Glad My Mother Died appears doubly successful the database nether antithetic categories.